Object Details
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Description
- Cardboard box containing one hypodermic needle, and carrying a text that reads in part “LILLY’S ILETIN SYRINGE NO. 280” AND “ELI LILLY & CO. Indianapolis, U.S.A.” The inscription on the needle tube reads “Lilly 35787 / NO. 280 ILETIN SYRINGE / ELI LILLY & CO. INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.” Iletin was the Eli Lilly trade name for insulin. The firm filed for a trademark on the term in 1922.
- In the early 1920s, Eli Lilly collaborated with the research team at the University of Toronto to develop the commercial manufacture of insulin. Along with the production of insulin, the company marketed accessories such as insulin syringe kits and testing kits for urine sugar.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eli Lilly and Company
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1982.0498.13
- catalog number
- 1982.0498.13
- accession number
- 1982.0498
- Object Name
- syringe, insulin
- Physical Description
- glass (syringe material)
- metal (needles material)
- cardboard (box material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 8.5725 cm x 3.81 cm
- syringe: 8.8 cm x 1.8 cm; 3 7/16 in x 11/16 in
- box: 3.6 cm x 8.4 cm x 2.1 cm; 1 7/16 in x 3 5/16 in x 13/16 in
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1347069
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-9b11-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
